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SAM CORDOVA

Venice,CA

Summary

Experienced Project Manager orchestrating successful project execution and delivering results on time and within budget. Adept at overseeing all project phases from initiation to closure, ensuring adherence to quality standards and stakeholder expectations. Skilled in fostering strong team collaboration and communication on a global scale to drive project success and achieve organizational objectives.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Project Analyst

UCLA
08.2024 - Current
  • Spearheaded the successful rollout of the Canva enterprise tool to UCLA students, designing an end-to-end fulfillment Miro workflow to guide faculty and staff through license ordering and task ownership.
  • Authored the Budget Standardization Playbook, establishing university-wide financial best practices that improved consistency and accuracy across project budgets.
  • Created and delivered training presentations on budgeting standards to new project budget managers, increasing alignment and reducing budget-related discrepancies.
  • Standardized and maintained Financial Aid Cloud Environment Technology (FACET) project financials by aligning actuals from the General Ledger to forecasted budgets, reporting weekly to Program Directors and ensuring budget compliance.
  • Led integration tracking between Oracle Student Financial Planning and UCLA’s General Ledger systems, building and managing a project plan, tracking dependencies, and resolving RAID items in collaboration with stakeholders.
  • Developed and maintained a weekly tracking dashboard using JIRA data and Excel pivot tables to visualize progress across functional and technical teams, enabling timely executive reporting and issue escalation.
  • Facilitated risk identification, scope tracking, and schedule alignment across multiple concurrent initiatives, driving timely delivery and alignment with PMO standards.

Information Technology Project Manager - Associate Vice President

MUFG Union Bank, National Association (N.A.)
05.2022 - 03.2024
  • Implemented project lifecycle management processes to ensure project requirements were documented and tracked throughout the project
  • Developed and maintained vendor contracts, financial forecasting, resource planning. Keeping million dollar projects within 8% variance.
  • Led project kick-off of global initiative successfully receiving project funding of $50 million.
  • Successfully implemented project with necessary control enhancements identified from the Financial Crimes Compliance (FCC) Data Management integrated control framework to eliminate duplicative coverage of data flows across the various (FCC) domains - resulting in long term efficiencies.
  • Remediated the End-of-Life Flash component associated with SML Anti-Money Laundering (AML) platform which enhanced the system usability and security standards around the data. Upgraded Oracle database with the latest available version.
  • Mentored junior team members in tool adoption, process improvement practices, and project management techniques.

Information Technology Project Manager - Analyst

MUFG Union Bank, National Association (N.A.)
06.2019 - 05.2022
  • Completed a comprehensive two-year project manager training program through waterfall and Agile IT projects as well as rotations in Enterprise Information Security, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, and Project Management Office reporting.
  • Co-designed Tableau dashboard for Project Management Office and Resource Control Tower. Led enterprise-wide roll out and adoption of the tool to track auxiliary metrics and assisted in performance reviews.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration

Virginia Commonwealth University

Skills

  • Microsoft 365
  • Communication
  • Financial Forecasting
  • ServiceNow
  • Leadership
  • Microsoft Project
  • Problem Solving
  • Ariba
  • SAP Fieldglass (Vendor Management Tool)
  • Stakeholder management
  • Project development
  • Project tracking

Certification

Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)

Timeline

Project Analyst

UCLA
08.2024 - Current

Information Technology Project Manager - Associate Vice President

MUFG Union Bank, National Association (N.A.)
05.2022 - 03.2024

Information Technology Project Manager - Analyst

MUFG Union Bank, National Association (N.A.)
06.2019 - 05.2022

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration

Virginia Commonwealth University

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